This is an analysis of By Faith With Thanksgiving by Edith Nesbit.

LOVE is no bird that nests and flies,
No rose that buds and blooms and dies,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc ddeefgfg
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 10111111 11111111 11111101 110110100 10011101 110001010 11011011 111101010 10111101 00010101 10110111 110011100 10011101 11111111 11110111 00010100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

and, no, that

Anaphora

no